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Seminar Schedule

Looking to attend geological, geomechanical and/or environment related seminars? The department sponsors several seminars throughout the year, bringing notable speakers from around the northeast. Check out the seminar schedule below for this year’s presentations.

Seminars take place Fridays at 3 p.m. in Hutchison 229, unless otherwise noted. Seminars are free and open to the public. Please direct any questions about this schedule to the seminar coordinator, Penny Higgins: pennilyn.higgins@rochester.edu.

Date	Speaker	Topic
FALL 2017
September 1	Mathew Evans University of York	Oceanic controls of atmospheric photochemistry Host: Murray
September 8	TBA	TBA
September 15	TBA	TBA
September 22	François Tissot MIT	Uranium Stable Isotopes, from Stars to Starfish Host: Ibanez-Mejia
September 29	Marlon Jean University of Rochester	New Insights into the Mantle Processes of the Terrestrial Planets Host: Higgins
October 6	Lisa Tauxe University of California, San Diego	TBA Host: Tarduno
October 13 (Meliora Weekend)	Stefanie Brachfeld Montclair State University	TBA Host: Tarduno *2:00 pm in Hutchison 316*
October 20	Various	GSA Practice Talks
October 27	TBA	TBA
November 3	Allison Macfarlane George Washington University	TBA Host: Tarduno
November 10	TBA	TBA
November 17	Graham Lederer United States Geological Survey	TBA
December 1	TBA	TBA
December 8	Various	AGU Practice Talks
SPRING 2018
January 19	TBA	TBA
January 26	TBA	TBA
February 2	TBA	TBA
February 9	TBA	TBA
February 16	Howie Scher University of South Carolina	Chasing ice through space and time – Reconstructing polar ice sheets through the Cenozoic using the marine sediment record Host: Higgins
February 23	TBA	TBA
March 2	TBA	TBA
March 9 (Friday before Spring Break)	TBA	TBA
March 23	Katherine Allen University of Maine	TBA Host: Borrelli
March 30	TBA	TBA
April 6	TBA	TBA
April 13	TBA	TBA
April 20	TBA	TBA
April 27	TBA	TBA
May 4 (Reading Week)	TBA	TBA